iFanboy Video Podcast

iFanboy – Episode #109 – New York Comic Con 2009 – Part 1

Show Notes

On a cold, February morning, The 4th annual New York Comicon began,
and Josh and Ron were there to cover it. With Conor down with the flu,
iFanboy staff writer Paul Montgomery, does his best to fill some
daunting shoes. As always, iFanboy talks to the creators doing some of
the best work out there. This year is no exception.

Mitch Breitweiser is one of the most exciting young artists to come out of Marvel in some time, working on everything from Annihilation to Captain America Theater of War.

iFanboy favorite Jay Faerber updates us on the end of Noble Causes, and the wonderful Dynamo 5, as well as some web only comics related to Marvel’s War of Kings story.

Releasing a barrage of creator owned stories over the last year, Joe Kelly
is a formidable franchise unto himself, with such titles as I Kill
Giants, Four Eyes, Bad Dog, and others. Plus he’s throwing in a
Spider-Man story later this year.

Finally Tony Daniel, artist from Batman RIP,
and upcoming writer/artist on the follow up Battle for the Cowl, talks
to us about going from pencils to scripting duties, as well as what
it’s like to translate the complicated mind of Grant Morrison into
clear comic book pages.

Make sure you come back next week for even more creator interviews. It was too much to fit into just one show!

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You need Conor…if it wasn’t for that blow-dryer Josh used, you would be shorter than everybody else you interviewed. That’s why everybody sit down when interviewing – it’s the second rule of journalism. Also – nice Hulk plug.

Breitweiser: Wow! Where has his pencils been all my life? I want to see that Namor comic in the worst way now.

Jay Faerber: Intrigued on Dynamo 5, hope to get the first trade soon. I wish his War of Kings stuff wasnt online only.

Hank the Intern…..why did Gordon get plastic surgery and changed his name?…..

Joe Kelly: Future of comics, like Brubaker or Bendis type of future….in my mind he should be that big. His Spider-Man stuff is the only thing I enjoyed 100% since BND started. Cant wait for the ‘I Kill Giants’ trade later in the year.

Paul oh my god….Paul. That might’ve been the greatest thing I’ve seen on this site. The look on Norton’s face at the end of that skit. Did he know what you guys were doing or what? That is up there with ‘Ode to the Beyonder’ that Jimski did as the funniest thing on ifanboy.

After seeing Paul on this episode (Hilarious!) and hearing Sonia (Awesome!) on a recent Podcast I have been struck with a most excellent idea! You see I really loved the iFanboy mini’s but apparently you guys dont have the time to do anymore and I also liked the idea that came up on the site last week about the "pther" writiers having their own podcast, which is logistically impossible. BUT, what if you combined the two. Paul, Sonia, Jim, Mike, Dave and Gordon could all take turns doing a mini a day from their hometown.

Awesome right? I mean, an iFanboy video a day?! What could be better?!

There will be video content in my column from time to time. Using the little Kodak camera (no tapes) makes it much easier to shoot the dumb little videos I’ve been doing. They’re not the minis, not nearly, but it’s there.

It is apparent that, as much as the iFanboy community misses Gordon and respects the acting prowess of Paul’s beard, I am the only person concerned with the lack of a satisfactory answer to the fishnet query.

While I applaud the jaunty attitude of this community there is simply no excuse for this unabashed avoidance of knowledge when it comes to the most important issues facing the comic book fan community today. Probably tomorrow as well.

Paul’s comedic stylings were all contained in this episode. We had only planned on doing one episode originally, but we shot too much stuff! So you get two shows. The next one is also extra awesome, just in a different way.